The only desert that comes to mind is the Colorado Desert through which flows the Colorado River. It is actually a sub-division of the Sonoran Desert.
The Great American Desert.
It was nicknamed The Great Plains or the Great American Desert.
The famous Zipper River.
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The Mississippi River is named after the Native American Ojibwe word "misi-ziibi," meaning "Great River." The Missouri River is the longest tributary of the Mississippi River, and it was named by the Native American Algonquian people, meaning "people with wooden canoes." The Mississippi River is named according to its significance and size in the region, while the Missouri River is named after the people who lived along its banks.
The Sturt Desert Pea was named after Charles Sturt, the explorer who traced the Murray River to its mouth on the South Australian coast. The Northern Territory's floral emblem is also named after Sturt: it is the Sturt Desert Rose.
The Nile River and the Sahara Desert.
The Amazons were fierce woman warriors who were named after the Greek myths
the objibwa tribe
I can find no desert named Tanga.
The Sahara is a desert that contains a river - the Nile.
Great American desert.